List of World Heritage Sites in danger

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Afghanistan

• Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamyan Valley (2003); severely damaged in 2001 by the Taliban.
• Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam
  Minaret of Jam
  
  The Minaret of Jam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Afghanistan. It is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, by the Hari River, Afghanistan....
   (2002)

Azerbaijan

• Walled City of Baku
  Baku
  
  Baku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bak?, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan....
   (2003)

Central African Republic

• Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (1997)

Chile

• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
  
  Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former Potassium nitrate refineries located in northern Chile. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005....
   (2005)

Côte d'Ivoire

• Comoé National Park
  Comoé National Park
  
  Como? National Park is a national park in north eastern C?te d'Ivoire as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since its inscription in 1983. It is in the Ivoirian Zanzan between the towns of Kong, C?te d'Ivoire to the west of both the park and the Como? River, and Bouna, C?te d'Ivoire to the east of the park, and just west of the Black Volta...
   (2003)
• Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
  Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
  
  File:Voa Guinea chimp guide Gomis 30jan08.jpgMount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in both Guinea and C?te d'Ivoire....
   (shared with Guinea
  Guinea
  
  Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. The country's current population is estimated at 10,211,437 ....
  ) (1992)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Garamba National Park
  Garamba National Park
  
  Garamba National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, was established in 1938. One of Africa's oldest National parks, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980....
   (1996)
• Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
  Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
  
  Kahuzi-Bi?ga National Park is in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 50 km west of the town of Bukavu in the Kivu Region, near to the western side of Lake Kivu and the Rwanda border....
   (1997)
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve
  Okapi Wildlife Reserve
  
  The Okapi Wildlife Reserve is a World Heritage Site in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with Sudan and Uganda....
   (1997)
• Salonga National Park
  Salonga National Park
  
  Salonga National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in the Congo River basin. It is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve....
   (1999)
• Virunga National Park
  Virunga National Park
  
  The Virunga National Park lies from the Virunga Mountains, to the Rwenzori Mountains, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda....
   (1994)

Ecuador

• Galápagos Islands
  Galápagos Islands
  
  Gal?pagos Islands are an archipelago of Island#Volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador....
   (2007)

Egypt

• Abu Mena
  Abu Mena
  
  Abu Mena was a town, monastery complex and Christianity pilgrimage center in Late Antiquity Egypt, about 45 km southwest of Alexandria. Its remains were designated a World Heritage Site in 1979....
   (2001)

Ethiopia

• Semien Mountains National Park
  Semien Mountains National Park
  
  Simien Mountains National Park is one of the National parks in Ethiopia of Ethiopia. Located in the Simien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, its territory covers the Simien Mountains and includes Ras Dashan, the highest point in Ethiopia....
   (1996)

Germany

• Dresden Elbe Valley
  Dresden Elbe Valley
  
  The Dresden Elbe Valley is a World Heritage Site in Dresden, Germany. The valley, extending for some 20 kilometres through the city of Dresden, is one of two cultural landscapes along the Central European river Elbe....
   (2006)

Greece

• The Parthenon (2004)

Guinea

• Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
  Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve
  
  File:Voa Guinea chimp guide Gomis 30jan08.jpgMount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in both Guinea and C?te d'Ivoire....
   (1992)

India

• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (1992)

Iran

• Bam
  Bam, Iran
  
  Bam is a city in Kerman Province of Iran. The city is the center of Bam County. The modern Iranian city of Bam surrounds the Arg-? Bam. Before the 2003 earthquake the official population count of the city was roughly 43,000....
   and its Cultural Landscape (2004)

Iraq

• Assur
  Assur
  
  Assur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq....
    (2003)
• Samarra
  Samarra
  
  Samarra is a city in Iraq.It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah al-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
   Archaeological City (2007)

Jerusalem

• Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
  Jerusalem's Old City walls
  
  The Old City is a 0.9 square kilometre area within the modern city of Jerusalem. Until the 1860s this area constituted the entire city of Jerusalem....
   (1982)Note: According to UNESCO,
  

The situation of Jerusalem is an exceptional one in that there is no general political agreement as to the status of the city, certain states declaring that they abided by the situation defined in the 1947 United Nations partition plan which considered Jerusalem as a corpus separatum located neither in Israel, nor in Jordan.

The site of Jerusalem was nominated in 1981 by Jordan, it being agreed at the time that inscription should in no way be regarded as a means for registering political or sovereignty claims by any State.

Niger

• Aïr
  Aïr Mountains
  
  The A?r Mountains is a triangular massif, located in northern Niger, within the Sahara desert. Part of the West Saharan montane xeric woodlands Ecoregion, they rise to more than 6,000 ft and extend over 84 000 km?....
   and Ténéré
  Ténéré
  
  The T?n?r? is a desert region in the south central Sahara. It comprises a vast plain of sand stretching from northeastern Niger into western Chad, occupying an area of over 154,440 square miles ....
   Natural Reserves (1992)

Pakistan

• Fort
  Lahore Fort
  
  The Lahore Fort, locally referred to as Shahi Qila is citadel of the city of Lahore, Punjab , Pakistan. It is located in the northwestern corner of the Walled City of Lahore....
   and Shalamar Gardens
  Shalimar Gardens (Lahore)
  
  The Shalimar Gardens , sometimes written Shalamar Gardens, is a Persian garden and it was built by the Mughal empire Shah Jahan in Lahore, modern day Pakistan....
   in Lahore
  Lahore
  
  is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
   (2000)

Peru

• Chan Chan
  Chan Chan
  
  The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeology site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad region, five km east of Trujillo, Peru....
   Archaeological Zone (1986)

Philippines

• Banaue Rice Terraces
  Banaue Rice Terraces
  
  The Banaue Rice Terraces are 2000-year old Terrace s that were carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the Batad indigenous people....
   in Banaue, Ifugao
  Ifugao
  
  Ifugao is a landlocked Provinces of the Philippines of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Covering a total land area of 251, 778 hectares, the province of Ifugao is located in the mountainous region characterized by rugged terrain, river valleys, and massive forests....
   - Cordillera Administrative Region
  Cordillera Administrative Region
  
  The Cordillera Administrative Region , Philippines' only Landlocked country region, consists of the Provinces of the Philippines of Abra , Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga Province, Mountain Province and Apayao Province....
   (2001)

Senegal

• Niokolo-Koba National Park
  Niokolo-Koba National Park
  
  The Niokolo-Koba National Park is a World Heritage Site and natural protected area in south eastern Senegal near the Guinea-Bissau border....
   (2007)

Serbia

• Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
  Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
  
  Medieval Monuments in Kosovo, Serbia is a World Heritage Site consisting of four Serbian Orthodox Church churches and monasteries which represent the fusion of the eastern Orthodox Byzantine architecture and the western Romanesque architecture ecclesiastical architecture to form the so-called Palaiologian Renaissance style....
  , including the Decani monastery
  Visoki Decani monastery
  
  Visoki Decani is a major Serbian Orthodox Church monastery located in disputed Serbia's province of Kosovo, 12 km south of the town of Pec. The monastic katholikon is the largest medieval church in the Balkans containing the most extensive preserved fresco decoration....
  , Patriarchate of Pec
  Patriarchate of Pec
  
  The Patriarchate of Pec is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Pec, in Kosovo. The complex of churches is the spiritual seat and mausoleum of the Serbian archbishops and Patriarch of Serbia....
  , Gracanica monastery
  Gracanica monastery
  
  Gracanica is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo. It was founded by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. On July 13, 2006 it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List under the name of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo as an extension of the Visoki Decani site which was overall placed on the List of World Heritage Sites in danger....
  , and Our Lady of Ljeviš
  Our Lady of Ljeviš
  
  Our Lady of Ljevi? is a 12th century Serbian Orthodox Church in the town of Prizren, located in the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo. It was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into an Orthodox Church in the early 20th century....
   (2006)

Tanzania

• Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani
  Kilwa Kisiwani
  
  Kilwa Kisiwani is a community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania....
   and Ruins of Songo Mnara (2004)

Venezuela

• Coro
  Santa Ana de Coro
  
  Coro is the capital of Falc?n State and the oldest city in the west of Venezuela....
   and its Port (2005)

Yemen

• Historic Town of Zabid
  Zabid
  
  Zabid is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons on Yemen's western coastal plain. The town, named after Wadi Zabid the wadi to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, it was the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century and a center of the Arab and Muslim world due in large part to its famed University of...
   (2000)

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